Coyote (series, Film)
Saber a qué Suena -
Solo exhibition - 2024
Museo Casa del Lago, CDMX
Curated by Julio García Murillo
Solo exhibition - 2024
Museo Casa del Lago, CDMX
Curated by Julio García Murillo
Miguel Buenrostro and José Luis Fuentes, 2024, From the Coyote series Inlays on tacote wood Courtesy of the artists
Miguel Buenrostro and José Luis Fuentes Mermamorphosis, 2024 From the Coyote series Assemblage with tacote wood and inlay strips Courtesy of the artists
Miguel Buenrostro and José Luis Fuentes Una ceiba en Cádiz, 2024 From the Coyote series Inlays on tacote wood Courtesy of the artists
Miguel Buenrostro and José Luis Fuentes Bauhaus Paracho, 2024 From the Coyote series Inlays on tacote wood Courtesy of the artists
Miguel Buenrostro and José Luis Fuentes Tempos de deus, 2024 From the Coyote series Inlays on tacote wood Courtesy of the artists
Miguel Buenrostro and José Luis Fuentes Noche en Tánger, 2024 From the Coyote series Inlays on tacote wood Courtesy of the artists
Images by Erik Lopez and Miguel Buenrostro
Based on collaborations with Latin American musicians in Berlin (Germany), Bergen (Norway), Stockholm (Sweden), and Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), Buenrostro also investigates the transatlantic circulation of musical instruments. Encounters with musicians from diverse latitudes open a migratory dimension of rhythmic affinities and heterodox instrument production on a global scale. A reverse or counter-temporal history emerges: unlike the colonialist narrative that marks a single direction of the arrival and permanence of musical instruments in Latin America, the perspective opened by material culture in tension with improvisation exercises activates a circular history. Here, design innovations, adaptation to local materials, and even the emergence of vernacular or subaltern doubles break the progressive narrative of instrument production.
Currently, Buenrostro is engaging in a conversation and collaboration with the concert musician and luthier from Oaxaca, José Luis Fuentes Zárate. With him, Buenrostro establishes an exchange of knowledge through a form of recording he calls “listening documentaries,” audiovisual recording processes where the visuality is subsumed to the aural dimension (recording in video what is heard). For the Coyote series, he explores a visual and material aspect of guitar production: the application of abstract designs on the top of different string instruments—following the convention of vihuelas and guitars—with the inlay strips that usually decorate them (elements that previously indicated the type of instrument and producer, and are now produced industrially).
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Miguel Buenrostro with the participation of José Luis Fuentes El laudero, 2023 Digital video 06’10’’ Courtesy of the artist and collaborators with the support of 99 Questions from Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
Currently, Buenrostro is engaging in a conversation and collaboration with the concert musician and luthier from Oaxaca, José Luis Fuentes Zárate. With him, Buenrostro establishes an exchange of knowledge through a form of recording he calls “listening documentaries,” audiovisual recording processes where the visuality is subsumed to the aural dimension (recording in video what is heard). For the Coyote series, he explores a visual and material aspect of guitar production: the application of abstract designs on the top of different string instruments—following the convention of vihuelas and guitars—with the inlay strips that usually decorate them (elements that previously indicated the type of instrument and producer, and are now produced industrially).
Miguel Buenrostro with the participation of José Luis Fuentes El laudero, 2023 Digital video 06’10’’ Courtesy of the artist and collaborators with the support of 99 Questions from Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss